Frontier Justice - Mob Jubilation

I know some people who went to the Raymond Jessop trial this week. I really would have given a small limb or at least a tooth to have been there. Barbarous Wartthug must be salivating over the opportunity to get some revenge on those filthy polygs who embarrassed her. I know she must be equally steamed over the fact that, now that there has been a conviction, the illegally-obtained evidence can be impeached or challenged or suppressed (or whatever the legal term is).

I understand that, when the jury (guilty) verdict was read, one of the honorable Texas Rangers inside the courtroom radioed his Ranger buddies standing outside. Their celebratory hootin' and hollerin' was so loud that it could be heard by those inside the courtroom. Now that's decorum!

Apparently, a conviction was the inevitable conclusion of this trial/lynching. Barbie coached the prosecutors and denied the defense's legitimate objections. Rather than beat this topic to death, I shall just make two more points - one dealing with human compassion - the other dealing with the law.
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1. I have observed these polygamy witch hunts over the last several years, and I have observed the following:

Tom Green married a 13.5 year old and did five years. The girl faithfully waited for Tom.
Rodney Holm married a 16 year old and did seven months with work release.
The guy who raped Heidi Mattingly's 13-year-old daughter while she was in forced foster care did a few months of prison time.
The Colorado City "Eight", who faced trials in Kingman before Judge Steven Conn, did a few weeks or months of prison time for marrying 16- and 17-year-olds.

Raymond Jessop's sentencing phase is underway and continues next week. The prosecution is rounding up disaffected apostates to plead against leniency. "String him up!", "Throw away the key!" This filthy, disgusting, warped, perverted, lecherous, polygamist pedophile had the nerve to MARRY A 16-YEAR-OLD !!!!!!!!!!!!! My heavens - why don't we just slit his throat? His wives and children don't need him. The least we can do is put him in prison for 20 years! Barbie can smell blood in the water. Let's put this guy away for the rest of his life so that we can set a precedent and send a message, and let's do this again and again until we put the other eleven guys away for 20 years, too. This is not Eldorado, Texas - this is Carthage, Illinois! Cut off his head! Kill the beast!

The other key point to remember is that Jessop's and the other defendants' marriages were sanctioned by their prophet. Now that the church's leader has long-since forbidden any future underage marriages, I am supremely confident that NONE will occur. So what message does the jury need to send? - "Don't marry any more minors"?! Any prison time at this point is would be malicious and spiteful and (as another esteemed blogger has pointed out) a hypocritical denunciation of the great Bible patriarchs whom God loved and endorsed as paragons of virtue and integrity.

2. The crime with which Raymond was charged was alleged to have occurred in November of 2004. If Texas truly had jurisdiction, and the crime could be shown to have occurred in Eldorado, then Texas's laws regarding age of consent (in 2004) would govern. In 2004, the age of consent was 14. The law was changed to reflect a higher age of consent (17) in September of 2005. So here's your homework assignment, kiddies - help me to figure out how Raymond Jessop can have been found to have been guilty of unlawful sexual assault, by an ex post facto law enacted after the date of the alleged crime.

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I'm no lawyer, so don't let me get carried away here, but it seems to me that something is rotten in Denmark.

The Texas Court of Appeals and the Texas Supreme Court are likely to have fun with this one. I'm sure that Barbie and her SturmTruppen are as proud as peacocks to have the taste of revenge. So, if they ever read this blog, my message to them comes from Proverbs 16:18 -

"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."

Renn